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Vatican II Behind the Iron Curtain (Hardcover)
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Vatican II Behind the Iron Curtain (Hardcover)
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A substantial historiography has emerged across national and
linguistic boundaries documenting the Second Vatican Council. And
yet virtually no attention has been devoted to the links between
the Council and the Catholic faithful who had found themselves
living behind an iron curtain by the end of the 1940s. Historians
of the Catholic Church have, in fact, mostly rejected the
possibility that Communist countries played a role in the
Council’s story, or that the Council in turn shaped the
subsequent paths of those countries. The goal of this volume is to
begin writing Central and Eastern Europe back into the story of the
Second Vatican Council, its origins, and its consequences. This
volume assembles—for the first time in any language—a broad
overview of the place of four different Communist-run
countries—Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, and Yugoslavia—in
the story of the Council. Framing these is an account of how the
Cold War impacted the Council and its reception. The book engages
with both English-language scholarship and the national
historiographies of the countries that it examines, o ering a
global lens on the present state of research (covering all relevant
languages) and seeking to propel that research forward. All of the
chapters draw on both non-English secondary literature and original
primary sources—some published, some archival. In all four
countries, religious aggiornamento went hand in hand with waves and
spurts of political liberalization. Though short-lived in their
initial form, civic aggiornamenti magnified the impact of religious
aggiornamento. Every country behind the Iron Curtain was different,
yet even across such diverse situations, one finds evidence that
societies engaged with Vatican II—and, moreover, that the Council
furnished a set of norms and aspirations that would play a
significant role in the final years of the Cold War. The election
of St. John Paul II in 1978†…, a pope from behind the Iron
Curtain, lit a match, but the tinder had been set much earlier for
modernization, reform, and an embrace of pluralism—even among
Catholics living behind the Iron Curtain.
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